Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Ideas

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al